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TOKYO — Japan could soon run out of its most popular beer, after a devastating cyberattack on its biggest brewer that has brought its domestic factories to a halt. Asahi Group, the Tokyo-based maker of Asahi Super Dry, said Monday that it was experiencing a “system failure” caused by the cyberattack, which disabled order and shipment operations at most of its 30 Japanese factories. Overseas sites do not appear to be affected by the cyberattack. “We are actively investigating the cause and working to restore operations; however, there is currently no estimated timeline for recovery,” the company said in a…

New Delhi: Commuters not having a functional FASTag will now have to pay just 1.25 times the applicable fee at toll plazas on National Highways (NHs), if they pay through online mode using Unified Payment Interface (UPI), from November 15, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement on Saturday. To incentivise digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on NHs for Non-FASTag users, the government of India has amended the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008. Under the new rule, vehicles entering a fee plaza without a valid,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The federal judge who sentenced the defendant found guilty of attempting to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is being criticized by conservatives on social media for the length of the sentence and concerns about Nicholas Roske, who goes by Sophie, identifying as transgender.Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, sentenced Roske to eight years in prison Friday for attempting to assassinate Kavanaugh in June 2022 in the weeks before the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision.The sentence is more lenient than what the Department of Justice (DOJ) had sought. Prosecutors said Roske should face…

The Greens are viewed more favourably than any other party in London and among younger voters, polling produced for the party has shown, with its leader, Zack Polanski, saying this showed they were “on track” to supplant Labour.The YouGov poll, carried out to coincide with the Greens’ ongoing annual conference in Bournemouth, asked voters in England to rank the five main parties in order of how favourably they felt about them, rather than the usual metric of which they planned to vote for.By this measure, across England as a whole the Greens were beaten only by Reform UK in terms…

With that in mind, some European officials have already poured cold water on the idea.“I very much appreciate the idea of a drone wall, but we should pay attention to manage expectations,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the Warsaw Security Forum earlier this week.“We have to think and act in priorities, and there are others,” Pistorius added. “Drone defense, of course, but not by a drone wall.”That hesitancy is echoed by some analysts, who said the concept currently lacked clarity.“I’m not against it, but I don’t understand it,” said retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commander of…

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India’s largest carmaker, has informed that its production rose 26 per cent year-on-year in September 2025, supported by strong market demand and higher vehicle dispatches. The company manufactured 2,01,915 units across its plants during the month, compared with 1,59,743 units in September 2024, according to a regulatory filing. Utility vehicles such as the Brezza, Ertiga and Fronx registered a 27 per cent annual growth in production, touching 79,496 units versus 62,752 units a year earlier. Production of the Eeco van also rose to 13,201 units from 11,702 units, while the Super Carry Light Commercial…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The government shutdown costs taxpayers $400 million every day to pay federal employees who are not actively working, totaling $1.2 billion as of Friday, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data published by Sen. Joni Ernst’s, R-Iowa, office estimates. “Schumer’s Shutdown Shenanigans mean taxpayers will be on the hook for another $400 million today to pay 750,000 non-essential bureaucrats NOT to work,” Ernst said in comment to Fox News Digital Friday. “Democrats’ political stunt to fight for taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants has officially become a billion-dollar boondoggle,” she added. “Enough has to be enough for the…

The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands.The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as the Conservatives heads into their annual conference after a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a move to tackle illegal immigration.Badenoch will say that the taskforce would be given £1.6bn and “sweeping new powers” if the Conservatives win the next election. This would include the ability to use facial…

Early last week in the Chinese tech hub of Hangzhou, a slick, larger-than-life video screen beamed out four words that would drive tech giant Alibaba’s stock to historic levels and signal a shift in China’s approach to artificial intelligence: “Roadmap to Artificial Superintelligence.”During his 23-minute keynote address at the flagship Alibaba Cloud conference, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu charted out a future featuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI). These terms point to a theorized era in which AI becomes roughly as smart as humans (AGI) and then much, much smarter (ASI).While these terms have been tossed around Silicon…

New Delhi: India’s growth trajectory is being actively supported by a series of coordinated policy measures aimed at boosting consumption, investment, and exports, according to Navneet Munot, Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited. Speaking to ANI, Munot emphasised that the government has consistently focused on increasing capital expenditure, particularly in areas such as physical, social, and digital infrastructure, which has laid a strong foundation for long-term growth. He noted that the recent GST rate cuts, personal income tax reductions, and simplification of tax rules are all part of a broader effort to stimulate domestic consumption. Add…